My favorite cooking websites

One of my friends asked me for the links to my favorite cooking websites. A lot of my inspiration for my own recipes comes from reading what other people are cooking, what they are putting in their recipes and eventually what I do is pull all of the combined ideas together into my own recipes. Here are my top 10 favorites:

1) http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/ I go here daily! I love her sense of humor, her stories and her recipes

2) http://thepioneerwoman.com/tasty-kitchen/ Created by the pioneer woman, this site has user submitted recipes that are to good to be true - look them up if you don't believe me!

3) http://allrecipes.com/ I go to this website when I am pantry cooking (meaning I don't have all the ingredients I need to make what I usually make and need to get creative, or go to the store - I'd rather get creative). The reason the website is helpful for pantry cooking is because you can search by ingredients - if you are out of eggs, but need to make a cake, you can search for recipes to accommidate what you are looking for.

4)http://www.nutritiondata.com/ I haven't used this site as much but it has recipes PLUS information on what you are eating - giving you nutrition labels for single ingredients - making your cooking educational. You can also store your recipes here.

5) http://closetcooking.blogspot.com/ This is some random guy in a tiny kitchen who cooks his little heart out with adventure....er, well - I mean with unique ideas and tasty ingredients. If you are looking to explore new ingredients or new ways of combining them, check this guy out!

6)http://www.cheekykitchen.com/ if you want a good dessert with a mouth watering picture of it, you must come here. I love looking at food pictures and these are AMAZING!

7) http://www.laraferroni.com/category/cookandeat/ this one has puurrrty pictures on it and makes my mouth water. I love to torture myself by staring at purty pictures all day and having my stomach grumbling until I can go make one of the recipes on here. :)

8) http://www.supercook.com/ Extremely helpful for pantry cooking again - you simply enter in the ingredients you are looking to use or get rid of and it will search lots of different websites to find you a recipe suited to what you are looking for - pure genious!

9) http://rouxbe.com/ gives you cooking lessons, you need a paid membership to access everything, but they offer many things for free as well. Its worth looking at!

10) http://www.epicurious.com/ People rave about this website, but my favorite will always be the Pioneer Woman!